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Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Allen Bettis conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Allen Bettis is an archaeologist working for the Texas Department of Transportation. Whenever m...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vijay Bhuchar conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Vijay Bhuchar moved to Houston from New Orleans and Delhi in 1975. She enjoyed a multi-sites c...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with James Bibe conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. James Bibe graduated from University of Tennessee with a degree in Geology in 1950, and immed...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Yolanda Navarro Black conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Since the 1960s Yolanda Navarro Black has been a long time social and political activi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Charlie Blackburn conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Charlie Blackburn had a long career with Shell beginning in 1952 after he graduated fr...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Bookout conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Bookout had a tremendously successful career with Shell Oil Company. After serving in Wor...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bob Bougeois conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bob Bougeois was born in Raceland, LA in 1934, he had four brothers. He studied physical educat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Lee Brasted conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Lee Brasted went got his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1964. He joi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pamela Braziel Allen and Ruby Lee Braziel conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pamela Braziel Allen, daughter of Overseer Ruby Lee Braziel, talks...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Royce Breaux and Roy Breaux, Jr. conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Royce Breaux is the chairman of Breauxs Baycraft, Inc. and Roy Breaux Jr. i...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vance Breaux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Vance Breaux is president and part-owner of Breaux Brother's Enterprise. He and his brother, Wa...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bill Broman conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Bill Broman got his B.S. and M.S. from Michigan Technological University. He joined Shell D...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Hazel Jewel Brown conducted as part of the Houston History Project. In this interview Brown discusses what it was like growing up in the Third Ward, going to ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Robert J. Brown found his first job in the petroleum industry in 1950, working as the tail chainman on a Tennessee Gas pipeline survey crew. His tenure with Tenneco took him between sites in New En...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Curtis Burton grew up in both Mississippi and India, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1979 with a degree in engineering. Burton took on with Otis Engineering, and was able to work on t...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Carlos Calbillo conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Carlos Calbillo was part of the radical movement during the Civil Rights Movement in the 196...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Dr. Luis R. Cano reflects on his career as a teacher and an activist in Houston. Dr. Cano started a school funded by grants. With only $35,000 he employed two others, and taught drop outs from HISD...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Dorothy Caram conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Dorothy Caram is an educator and community activist in the Mexican American community of H...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Nellie M. Caraway conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ms. Nellie Caraway was born in Beaumont, Texas but has been a long-time resident of Housto...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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John Carter’s father worked for a quarter of a century as a production manager for Burma Oil, and his son followed him into the oil business. Living in Glasgow, Scotland, Carter studied mechanical ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Reverend Lowell Case conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Reverend Lowell Case is one of thirteen siblings born in a historically agricultural ar...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with J.C. Chargois conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. J. C. Chargois was born in 1924 in Lafayette and was the third child of Kezz and Louise Ch...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Depp Cheramie went to work for Texaco in his native Louisiana in 1971, when he was 19 years old. After a decade with the firm, Cheramie moved on to Shell Oil in 1982, working as a senior operator o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Keli Chevalier conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Major Keli Chevalier, the founder of the nonprofit Trauma to Triumph, discusses how she came ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Vietnam War immigrant Suzanne Chew briefly describes her passage from Vietnam to the United States, the traditions she has kept from her homeland, and America’s influence on her and her family. She...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Rob Christ attended Louisiana Tech University and emerged with dual degrees in aviation and accounting. After a stint as a CPA, Christ joined up with the work of his father, C.J. Christ, in the sub...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robey Clark conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Robey Clark went to LSU in 1939 and joined the Navy before graduation. However, they still gave ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Susan Clayton Garwood conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Susan Clayton Garwood, the great-granddaughter of Houston cotton magnate, William Lock...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Marshall Cloyd studied engineering at both Berkeley and Southern Methodist University before finishing a master’s at Stanford and Harvard Business School. In 1959, Cloyd began working in Mississipp...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Mike Collins conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mike Collins is one of the very old hands at archaeology here in Texas. His specialty is lithic...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bruce Collipp conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bruce Collipp graduated from MIT in 1953 with a masters degree. He started at Shell in 1954....
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Alison Cook conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Alison Cook is the restaurant critic for the Houston Chronicle. She has been an active member of...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tim Cooper conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Tim Cooper defined the damage done to the Anahuac Wildlife refuge. His commitment to the area and...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Edward T. Cotham conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Civil War historian Edward Cotham discusses the personal and military history of Confederat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with William Craig conducted as part of the Houston History Project. William Craig earned a bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State Universit...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tim Creswell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Tim Creswell responded to the article in the Baton Rouge Advocate. Born and raised in Abbeville...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Born in Cut Off in 1951, Windell Curole is presently director of the South Lafourche Levee District, where he started in 1980. He was trained as a marine biologist. His father was a shrimper and ro...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Lawrence B. “Buck” Curtis graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1949 and promptly went to work for Conoco in its Wyoming oil fields. Curtis soon wound up leading a burgeoning engineering g...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Elmer “Bud” Danenberger III has a long and distinguished career as an offshore oil and gas expert in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Trained as an engineer at Pennsylvania State University, Da...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Danos and Todd Danos conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Danos grew up on a farm in southeast Louisiana on Bayou Lafourche. He got invol...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jamison M. Day conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Jamison M. Day was interviewed on June 20, 2006 at his office in Melcher Hall, Room 290B,...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Charles De Gravelle conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Charles de Gravelle was born in Thibodaux, LA. His father was a doctor and graduated...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Deblieux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Deblieux is the Human Resource Director/Risk Management Director for Chet Morrison Contra...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jesse Des Jacques conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Jesse des Jacques was born in 1934 in south Louisiana. His father was a truck driver. ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pankaj Desai conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pankaj Desai enjoyed an affluent childhood in Bombay where his parents had migrated in the 1930...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ronald Deshotels conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ronald Deshotels was born in Kaplan, Louisiana in 1934. His father was the first person to ...
Recording of lecture given by Nobel laureate physicist P. A. M. Dirac at the "Symposium on the Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature in the Twentieth Century," held in Trieste, Italy...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Lee Dias conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Lee Dias was born in Paincourtville, Louisiana. His father worked as a truck driver and later o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Velma Dickey conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Velma Dickey was born in Shereveport, Louisiana in 1948. She migrated to Houston after finishin...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Eddie Domingue conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Eddie Domingue was born in 1927 on the outskirts of present day Lafayette. He did not finish ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with J. David Dozier conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. J. David Dozier is the Director, Congregational Liaison Disaster Preparedness, Interfait...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ronald Dressel conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dressel was raised on a sugar cane farm in Loreauville, LA. Started in the oil field in 1964 ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pat Dunn conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pat Dunn graduated from Ohio State with a Masters in Civil engineering and began working for Shell ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Edmonds conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Edmonds has held the office of chairman of the Port of Houston Authority since 2000. His is ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with C.E. "Chuck" Edwards conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. C. E. "Chuck" Edwards served in the Pacific during World War II and received his de...
Samuels, Danny M.; Essinger, Catherine; Evans, Elinor
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Former Rice student Danny Samuels interviews Elinor Evans. Evans discusses her background, teaching career, classroom technique and influences as well as her parallel career as an artist. Additiona...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tricia Elliot conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Tricia Elliott was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was eight. Fol...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Judge Ed Emmett conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Judge Ed Emmett discusses his memories of visiting Westbury Square in the 1960s. At the time...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Gwen Emmett conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Gwen Emmett recounts Westbury Square in its infancy during the 1960s. Westbury Square provided a...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Charles “Chuck” Enze grew up in South Dakota, where he attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, graduating in 1975 as a civil engineer. Enze took on with Shell Oil at the start of 1976...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Estes conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Estes worked for Bethlehem Steel from 1949-1982. He is a former manager and engineer at Beth...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bill Estevens conducted as part of the Houston History Project. One of three boys, Mr. Bill Estevens was born in New Orleans in 1948. His father was a salesma...
Eugene Aubry interviewed by Catherine Essinger. Aubry discusses his influences growing up in Galveston, his architectural practice, a partnership with S. I. Morris and with Howard Barnstone, and s...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Sam L. Evans conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Sam Evans was a geophysicist/seismologist first with GSI in the 1950s, then with several other ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Anthony Jude Obi conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Anthony Obi is a Houston native Nigerian-American rap artist that goes by the name “Fat Ton...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Daniel Alt interviews Rick Ferguson who discusses the Houston Film Commission, the film industry in Houston, and some of the films that have been shot in the city. Ferguson explains the economics o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with R.L. Ferris conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. R. L. Ferris graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1941 and started working for She...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Bill Hausinger dispatched Otis L. Owens and Glen Morris to respond to Houston’s first EMS call on April 10, 1971, at 12:30 a.m. The interview opens with a recording of that first call. They then sh...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Clyde Fitzgerald conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Clyde Fitzgerald is a native of Houston. His father and two uncles worked as longshoremen o...